HOUSE VOTES TO SUE OBAMA

House Republicans on Wednesday passed a resolution authorizing them to sue President Barack Obama for what they call an overreach of constitutional authority.

The resolution passed the Republican-controlled House in a party-line vote of 225-201 on Wednesday. All but five Republicans voted for the measure, while all 199 Democrats voted against it.

The coming lawsuit will accuse Obama of exceeding his constitutional authority as president by making unilateral changes to the Affordable Care Act — specifically, in twice delaying implementation of the law’s so-called employer mandate.

House Speaker John Boehner has hinted at the lawsuit for a little more than a month. Republicans have argued that Obama has continually overstepped his constitutional authority through executive actions on Obamacare and other areas, including his 2012 order to ease deportations of some young undocumented immigrants.

Obama on Wednesday dismissed the lawsuit as a “political stunt,” and he playfully urged congressional Republicans to work with him and “stop just hatin’ all the time.” He said he takes unilateral action because he can’t wait for Congress to act in certain areas, including equal pay and student-loan interest rates.

“So some of the things we’re doing without Congress are making a difference, but we could do so much more if Congress would just come on and help out a little bit,” Obama said during the Wednesday speech in Kansas City. “Just come on. Come on and help out a little bit. Stop being mad all the time. Stop just hatin’ all the time.”

In February, the administration announced it will delay the mandate’s penalty another year for small businesses with 50-99 workers. It said it would also adjust some of the requirements for larger employers.

Under the new Treasury Department rules, businesses with 100 employees or more must offer coverage to at least 70% of full-time workers in 2015 and 95% in 2016, or face a penalty.